I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.

"My very favourite of the books. In fact, I liked it so much that I bought fifteen copies and I’ve been giving them out to everyone. Yes, but I wasn’t the only one who loved this book. I think everyone was intrigued by it, because it’s so interactive. It’s a true and very creative art and science fusion. The artist describes herself as a designer and artist who uses data as a creative material. The author is a data journalist and researcher who explores novel ways of communicating data. So this book was interesting to me because even at the introductory university level, and certainly at high school level, many science books are written as what a friend of mine calls dictionaries with pictures—just definitions. What I loved about this is that it has a lot of very quirky fun facts, but they’re presented in a way that you engage with the book, you actually bounce it on your head or drop it on the floor. Another page that a friend of mine loves is where they show the different animal eyes, and that the eyes are scaled to actual size. The book also has an appendix in the back, which is where all the data sources are. The small print pages have sources, encouraging you if you want to go find out more. I loved the way everything is scaled properly, all of the different tongues, the size of your tongue versus that of a butterfly. Also, I like the fact that things are in different orientations so that you physically have to turn the book upside down or turn it on its side. It’s unusually interactive. Yes it’s simple, but very effective."